"Blood was shed" during the debate in Parliament on the proposal to postpone the municipal elections and extend the term of the already elected local authorities until the 2024 European elections.
Specifically, when the ELAM MP, Andreas Themikstokleous, spoke, he had stated that "if the constitutional legislator wanted to give us the right to hold elections whenever we want. He would have done it, but he did not. "
When DIKO MP Christiana Erotokritou took the stage, she said, among other things, that "it is amazing to hear lessons of democracy from this stage, at least as far as DIKO is concerned. We defended democracy with our blood in this place, but it is amazing to hear and find ignorance about the constitution of KD. There is no mention of the Municipal Elections in the Constitution ".
In turn, the AKEL MP, George Loukaidis, said that "it is understandable that the core of the Golden Dawn in Cyprus after the condemnation in Greece is trying to camouflage itself and conceal what it is. But getting to the point of teaching us Democracy lessons is really outrageous. The supporters of Grivas and EOKA B, the supporters of National Socialism and supporters of Hitler ". He added that he speaks consciously and everything is documented by the facts, while he referred to Nazi greetings for an MP who does not name but there is a photo of him.
This provoked a strong reaction from the president of ELAM, Christos Christou, who stated that "AKEL is sensitive to democracy and I remind you that during the rule of Makaritis, now Dimitris Christofias, teachers were expelled for their positions. He was prosecuted for publishing a satirical newspaper about their Cretan government. It is a question of worthy people who have just learned and been trained for Democracy. In Soviet universities perhaps?
On the other hand, we as ELAM believe in Greek history where the Republic was born.
We end with the reference to the photos. We also have Here is the AKEL MEP with the flag of the pseudo-state. "Here is a former secretary general of AKEL with a portrait of a great democrat of Lenin."
Source: Sigmalive